After a brief hiatus, the Breaking Bronx blog is back with a new edition of the Bronx News Roundup. Let’s get down to business, starting with the weather forecast: Oh, SWEET RELIEF! High of only around 85 today with a chance of showers early this afternoon (it’s raining in Norwood as we publish this) and overnight. Should be even cooler tomorrow.

We have to start with the huge fire that tore into a Bronx apartment building near Yankee Stadium yesterday. The fire began at the 185-unit Walton Avenue building just after midnight and wasn’t brought under control until 4:30 a.m. In total, 27 (or 28, reports differ) firefighters and three residents were injured, but nobody seriously. As many as a third of the residents will become homeless as their apartments were completely destroyed.

Daily News has some intense photos from the fire yesterday. (Plus a shot of the infamous “Bronx is burning” fire that broke out near the stadium during the 1977 World Series. Ah, the good old days.)

Now, onto some better news: The Times’ architecture critic Michael Kimmelman tours the Bronx River and documents the river’s renaissance, noting the many new parks and various clean-up efforts that have increased access to what was once a heavily-polluted dumping ground. Here’s the video that accompanies the piece.

JHS 80, the Norwood middle school forced to close this summer and re-open this fall under a new name, new principal and many new faculty members under the federal “turnaround” program, saw a huge jump in its scores and the state math exam. A year ago, only 14% of students passed the test. This year, the Daily News reports, half of the school’s students passed.

Big front page article in yesterday’s Times on Monsignor Gerald Ryan, the 92-year-old priest at St. Luke’s parish in Mott Haven. He’s the oldest working priest in the city and the face of a graying priesthood in the United States.

Daily News Bronx Bureau Chief Patrice O’Shaughnessy writes about a couple of Bronxites, Wayne Gurman and James McSherry, who are filming their own comedic reality show called “Bronx Dayz.”

The Department of Environmental Conservation is setting up check-points in Hunts Point to ensure that freight trucks and other vehicles are complying with environmental standards. WNYC reports that it’s part of a statewide program targeting low-income areas with high pollution.

DNAinfo writes about Kevin Lee, the 23-year-old Bronxite who died in an apparent drunk-driving incident near Woodlawn Cemetery on Monday night.

Montefiore Medical Center, the Bronx’s largest hospital, is leading the fight against the borough’s diabetes crisis, reports the Daily News. 12% of Montefiore’s patients over the age of the 21 have diabetes.

Former Bronx pol Pedro Espada, already facing prison time after being convicted of stealing from the nonprofit healthcare network he founded, says he’s too broke to afford a lawyer for another trial on charges of tax evasion and submitting false statements to government agencies. [Riverdale Press]

The Bronx driver who killed a Bronx father during a reckless rampage in 2009 was sentenced to 10-15 in prison. [Post]

Daily News points out that Bronx Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo has paid her husband $15,000 in campaign consulting fees over the past six months. The DN says it’s illegal to hire relatives using public matching dollars, but not if the money is from private donations. Arroyo’s nephew, you might recall, was convicted of embezzling more than $200,000 from South Bronx Community Corp., a nonprofit Arroyo helped fund and which employed her relatives. She has not been charged with any wrongdoing in connection with that case.

That’s all we have time for today, folks. Send us links and news tips at norwoodnews@norwoodnews.org.